Veterans Blog

Q: I am sick and tired of being abused by interviewers who are not courteous, respectful or kind. Many of them never look at my resume until I arrive, then proceed to inform me that the job requires some skill which I don’t even possess. I have been stared at to the point of discomfort,…

I wrote my first resume in 1982, when I was twenty-two. Doesn’t that seem like a million years ago? Back then, the resume-writing standard was that we all tried to sound exactly like everyone else in our resumes. We were trying to fit some kind of ancient corporate standard. We thought it sounded very professional…

Once you realize that all of your power to capture a reader’s attention – and I’m talking about your hiring manager here, a/k/a Your Next Boss – is in the story that you tell, you’re going to view your resume differently. Your resume has to tell a story. A human being has to come through…

n some fields, having military service under your belt offers a real leg up — both career wise and financially. As new data from PayScale recently found, veterans are at least twice as likely as civilians to hold certain high paying jobs in industries like national security, technology and transportation. Here are the five veteran-heavy…